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Der Rosenkavalier comedy for music in three acts

Title: Der Rosenkavalier [sound recording] : comedy for music in three acts / music by Richard Strauss ; libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
Author: Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, c2000.

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Description

4 sound discs : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Metropolitan Opera.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Dec. 9, 2000

Uniform Title

Rosenkavalier (Opera)
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Rosenkavalier (Opera)

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Subtitle from house program.
Durations: 1:25:14 (synopses and features) ; 3:03:15 (opera).
Compact discs.
House program on file in Music Division.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

Susanne Mentzer (Octavian) ; Cheryl Studer (Princess von Werdenberg) ; Jonathan Green (The Princess' major-domo) ; Eric Halfvarson (Baron Ochs) ; Jean Braham, Deborah Saverance, and Rebecca Carvin (Three noble orphans) ; Charlotte Philley (A milliner) ; Irwin Reese (An animal vendor) ; Anthony Laciura (Valzacchi) ; Marcelo Álvarez (An Italian singer) ; Marcus Bugler (A hairdresser) ; James Courtney (A notary) ; Wendy White (Annina) ; Gregory Lorenz (Leopold) ; Marty Singleton, Barry Brandes, Meredith Derr, and Kenneth Young (Lackeys and waiters) ; Claudia Waite (Marianne) ; Mark Schowalter (Faninal's major-domo) ; Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz (Sophie) ; Jonathan Welch (An innkeeper) ; Jeffrey Wells (A police commissary) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Jiří Kout, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 9, 2000.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in German.

Contents

CD 1. Act 1 -- CD 2. Act 2 -- CD 3. Act 3 -- CD 4. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) [includes historic recording from Dec. 1940 in which W.S.S. Rodgers, president of the Texas Co. (now Texaco) speaks about their sponsorship of the Met broadcasts] ; greetings from Joseph Volpe, General Manager of the Met, and Peter Bijur, current CEO of Texaco ; Opera news on the air (Brian Zeger, pianist, explores how Strauss uses musical motifs to support the unfolding drama of Der Rosenkavalier) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Peter Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (William Livingstone, host, with George Jellinek, Fr. Owen Lee, and Terrence McNally) [includes historic recording of Milton Cross introducing the first quiz, originally titled "The opera question forum", in 1940] ; Synopsis of Act 3 (Peter Allen).

Call Number

*LDC 26930

OCLC

NYPG01-R339

Author

Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949.

Title

Der Rosenkavalier [sound recording] : comedy for music in three acts / music by Richard Strauss ; libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

Imprint

[New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, c2000.

Playing Time

012514 030315

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Dec. 9, 2000

Cast

Susanne Mentzer (Octavian) ; Cheryl Studer (Princess von Werdenberg) ; Jonathan Green (The Princess' major-domo) ; Eric Halfvarson (Baron Ochs) ; Jean Braham, Deborah Saverance, and Rebecca Carvin (Three noble orphans) ; Charlotte Philley (A milliner) ; Irwin Reese (An animal vendor) ; Anthony Laciura (Valzacchi) ; Marcelo Álvarez (An Italian singer) ; Marcus Bugler (A hairdresser) ; James Courtney (A notary) ; Wendy White (Annina) ; Gregory Lorenz (Leopold) ; Marty Singleton, Barry Brandes, Meredith Derr, and Kenneth Young (Lackeys and waiters) ; Claudia Waite (Marianne) ; Mark Schowalter (Faninal's major-domo) ; Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz (Sophie) ; Jonathan Welch (An innkeeper) ; Jeffrey Wells (A police commissary) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Jiří Kout, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 65, no. 6 (Dec. 2000).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Dec. 9, 2000.

Language

Sung in German.

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Added Author

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929. Librettist

Mentzer, Susanne. Performer

Studer, Cheryl. Performer

Green, Jonathan (Singer) Performer

Halfvarson, Eric.4. Performer

Braham, Jean. Performer

Saverance, Deborah. Performer

Carvin, Rebecca. Performer

Haines, April. Performer

Philley, Charlotte. Performer

Reese, Irwin. Performer

Laciura, Anthony. Performer

Alvarez, Marcelo (Tenor) Performer

Bugler, Marcus. Performer

Courtney, James, 1946- performer

White, Wendy. Performer

Lorenz, Gregory. Performer

Singleton, Marty. Performer

Brandes, Barry. Performer

Derr, Meredith. Performer

Young, Kenneth (Singer) Performer

Opie, Alan. Performer

Waite, Claudia. Performer

Schowalter, Mark. Performer

Norberg-Schulz, Elizabeth. Performer

Welch, Jonathan. Performer

Wells, Jeffrey. Performer

Kout, Jiří. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Rodgers, W. S. S. (William Starling Sullivant), 1886-1965. Commentator

Volpe, Joseph. Commentator

Bijur, Peter. Commentator

Zeger, Brian. Commentator

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Livingstone, William. Commentator

Jellinek, George, 1919- Commentator

Lee, M. Owen, 1930-2019. Commentator

McNally, Terrence. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Added Title

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 26930

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